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  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host
    Puzzler wrote: »
    @Stetson, I don’t see how French février helps to spell February. Were you think of German perhaps?
    I suspect it’s because the French remind one that it is February, not Febuary.
  • TurquoiseTasticTurquoiseTastic Kerygmania Host
    Puzzler wrote: »
    @Stetson, I don’t see how French février helps to spell February. Were you think of German perhaps?

    I guess it reminds you that there is an "R" in the middle of it, which is not obvious from the English pronunciation.
  • I have recently repeatedly had to say to financial advisors: "I am an intelligent, educated woman who can work perfectly well with words and with numbers under normal circumstances. But mention money or pensions and you'll need to talk to me as though I were five years old or a golden retriever puppy".
  • I always attempt to pronounce both Rs in "February|.
  • Puzzler wrote: »
    @Stetson, I don’t see how French février helps to spell February. Were you think of German perhaps?

    "february"

    "fevrier"

    The "vr" in the French reminds me of the "br" in the English, so I don't spell it "Feburary" or something.

    The second R in the English might confuse me as well, but I think the word just kinds spells itself for me after "br". Not sure, though, since it's been a while since I used the device, and I believe I actually had to look up the full spelling when I wrote my earlier post.
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    HarryCH wrote: »
    I always attempt to pronounce both Rs in "February|.

    It's Febry to me.
  • I get it, though it is not a spelling I find tricky.
  • KarlLB wrote: »
    HarryCH wrote: »
    I always attempt to pronounce both Rs in "February|.

    It's Febry to me.

    Bit like the libry where I work (that's how most people say it anyway)
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    edited October 2024
    KarlLB wrote: »
    HarryCH wrote: »
    I always attempt to pronounce both Rs in "February|.

    It's Febry to me.

    Bit like the libry where I work (that's how most people say it anyway)

    Many people who think they don't say things like Febry and Libry actually do.

    You notice when trying to learn a foreign language that what people think they say isn't what they actually say.
  • Smudgie wrote: »
    I have recently repeatedly had to say to financial advisors: "I am an intelligent, educated woman who can work perfectly well with words and with numbers under normal circumstances. But mention money or pensions and you'll need to talk to me as though I were five years old or a golden retriever puppy".

    Oooh, I thought I was the only one!
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    Sparrow wrote: »
    Smudgie wrote: »
    I have recently repeatedly had to say to financial advisors: "I am an intelligent, educated woman who can work perfectly well with words and with numbers under normal circumstances. But mention money or pensions and you'll need to talk to me as though I were five years old or a golden retriever puppy".

    Oooh, I thought I was the only one!

    I can understand financial stuff perfectly well. I can't deal with it though. It sets my anxiety off.
  • KarlLB wrote: »
    HarryCH wrote: »
    I always attempt to pronounce both Rs in "February|.

    It's Febry to me.

    I think I pronounce it something like FEB-you-airy.
  • stetson wrote: »
    Spelling the work rhythm. I am pretty sure I have never got it right first time.

    Yeah. It's got a superfluous H, and it sounds like there should be a second Y near the end.

    I always want to put a silent N on the end of it. Like column, perhaps? I think by the time I've remembered the extra H and left out the missing Y, it feels like there ought to be something else weird about the word.
  • HarryCH wrote: »
    I always attempt to pronounce both Rs in "February|.

    I was raised by a mother for whom English was an additional language. She always pronounced vegetable as VEJ-et-ə-bəl. Therefore, so did I; I still lean toward that pronunciation. However, the rest of the world laughs at me whilst saying VEJ-ta-bəl.
  • Ooh, what language?
  • I embarrassed myself trying to help someone in the airport today. Clearly my Vietnamese has driven out what i used to know of Spanish. Must refresh.
  • Ooh, what language?

    Dutch. She immigrated to Canada at age 15.
  • I can’t spell epididymis without a lot of swearing and experimentation. Which would not be a problem if I didn’t work in an emergency department any see patients with epididymitis roughly once a week.

    I also can’t play the guitar. Except C and G7 chords.
  • DoublethinkDoublethink Admin, 8th Day Host
    I’m surprised that’s so frequent.
  • SpikeSpike Ecclesiantics & MW Host, Admin Emeritus
    I’m terrible at completing tasks. I usually start with pr,end of energy and enthusiasm, but I invariably get distracted and
  • stetsonstetson Shipmate
    edited October 2024
    I can’t spell epididymis without a lot of swearing and experimentation. Which would not be a problem if I didn’t work in an emergency department any see patients with epididymitis roughly once a week.

    MAN: Who did that?

    WOMAN: Epi.

    MAN: Epi did? Why, miss?

    (FWIW, that's not TOO much of a shoehorn, since the real name of the American columnist Ann Landers was actually "Eppie".)
  • I embarrassed myself trying to help someone in the airport today. Clearly my Vietnamese has driven out what i used to know of Spanish. Must refresh.

    I am afraid I often speak French/Spanish when I am trying to speak to someone in my limited Spanish.
  • At my French conversation group, one of our members inserts many Spanish words into her French. Sometimes, as I don’t speak Spanish, I am completely lost, as her pronunciation in any language is hard to understand. She is English btw.
  • Spelling the work rhythm. I am pretty sure I have never got it right first time.
    I used to struggle with spelling that word too. But I was helped right here on the ship when a shipmate explained that ‘rhythm helps your two hips move’

  • Tree Bee wrote: »
    Spelling the work rhythm. I am pretty sure I have never got it right first time.
    I used to struggle with spelling that word too. But I was helped right here on the ship when a shipmate explained that ‘rhythm helps your two hips move’

    Great! I was trying to think of one myself, but couldn't quite get it down.
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    One of the vanishingly few dividends of having Greek taught at me for two years (note I did not use the verb "learn" there) is being able to spell rhythm.
  • KarlLB wrote: »
    One of the vanishingly few dividends of having Greek taught at me for two years (note I did not use the verb "learn" there) is being able to spell rhythm.

    Similarly I sat for 4 years in a classroom in which Latin was being taught, but it didn't take.
  • Sparrow wrote: »
    KarlLB wrote: »
    One of the vanishingly few dividends of having Greek taught at me for two years (note I did not use the verb "learn" there) is being able to spell rhythm.

    Similarly I sat for 4 years in a classroom in which Latin was being taught, but it didn't take.
    When the teacher said "Sedete Omnes". Did you sit down or say "Pedicabo omnes"

  • KarlLB wrote: »
    One of the vanishingly few dividends of having Greek taught at me for two years (note I did not use the verb "learn" there) is being able to spell rhythm.

    I was being taught Greek for a short period. Atually, some of it did take, in that I can mostly work out the pronunciation of words.

    It did't help me in the spelling of words though.
  • KarlLBKarlLB Shipmate
    edited October 2024
    Telford wrote: »
    Sparrow wrote: »
    KarlLB wrote: »
    One of the vanishingly few dividends of having Greek taught at me for two years (note I did not use the verb "learn" there) is being able to spell rhythm.

    Similarly I sat for 4 years in a classroom in which Latin was being taught, but it didn't take.
    When the teacher said "Sedete Omnes". Did you sit down or say "Pedicabo omnes"

    "I will bugger everyone"? Strange response!

    Pedica illud - "Bugger that!" - I can imagine...
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